UDP Characteristics

Datagram-based

  • Connectionless
  • unreliable (no ordering of data)
  • can broadcast
  • Higher performance (used in games, etc.)

Applications usually message-based

  • No transport-layer retries
  • Applications handle (or ignore) errors

Processes identified by port number

UDP Services live at specific ports

  • Usually below 1024, requiring privilege

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